Child Care Workers Deserve a Raise

That's why people who care for children are coming together with parents to fight for fair pay and child care for all. We're standing together to demand more for everyone who works hard but doesn’t make enough to get by.

Given their job requirements, child care providers like Ingrid Henlon are underpaid and underappreciated. With limited avenues for wage growth, passionate child care providers are forced to work two or three jobs to makes ends meet; others must utilize public assistance programs. The hardships force others to leave the profession altogether. Providers who choose to…

Bethina Redd, child care provider and Fight for $15 activist from Chicago, loves her job, but worries about affording things like rent, medical expenses and even child care for her own two kids. She has never made more than $13 an hour and paying for things like school field trips can bring unneeded stress. “It’s…